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International Migrants Day

After four decades of brutal war, the link between climate change and conflict is not as clear in any other country as it is in Afghanistan. : US Air Force/Staff Sgt. Stacey Haga, Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/28650594@N03/5333327810 CC BY 2.0

Afghanistan is facing a perfect storm of threats, and climate change is pushing it to breaking point. The world seems unaware of the coming catastrophe.

International Migrant's Day

Afghan crisis is a migration crisis

Afghanistan is facing a perfect storm of threats, and climate change is pushing it to breaking point. The world seems unaware of the coming catastrophe.

Conflict
Are polar bears climate refugees? : Tavis Ford/Flickr CC BY 2.0

Billions of people are likely to be displaced by climate change. But calling them ‘climate refugees’ oversimplifies the complex reasons people flee their homes.

International Migrants Day

There’s no such thing as a climate refugee

Billions of people are likely to be displaced by climate change. But calling them ‘climate refugees’ oversimplifies the complex reasons people flee their homes.

Environment
While trade unions are widespread across China, rural-to-urban workers particularly suffer when their union is an inactive ‘paper union’. : Tauno Tõhk, Flickr CC BY 2.0 (https://bit.ly/3mXoOJQ

Although trade unions are widespread in China, conditions for rural-to-urban migrant workers haven’t improved as fast as they have for local urban employees.

International Migrants Day

‘Paper unions’ letting down China’s internal migrant workers

Although trade unions are widespread in China, conditions for rural-to-urban migrant workers haven’t improved as fast as they have for local urban employees.

Culture
Bologna traditionally has a large number of migrant workers. : awsloley/Pixabay Public domain

Italy is increasingly using migrant workers as a labour pool for logistics and high-turnover industries, cutting corners on safety and training.

International Migrants Day

Italy: warm welcome hides a cold, exploitative reality for migrant workers

Labour
Vulnerable girls in India received none of the benefits of their citizenship rights and so they do not fear losing those rights. : Abhisek Sarda, Flickr (https://bit.ly/3HwtuzW) CC BY 2.0

Poverty and abuse often mean Indian girls and women see human traffickers as their ticket to a better life – and this only grew worse during the pandemic.

International Migrants Day

Grim options, grim choices: trafficked girls in India

Conflict
India’s Muslim immigrant community was excluded from the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Bill. : Vyacheslav Argenberg, Wikimedia Commons CC BY 4.0 (https://bit.ly/39zrr1w)

With refugee populations growing, the spotlight is intensifying on nations that cast out the stateless – people who do not have citizenship to any country.

International Migrants Day

Global statelessness crisis keeps growing

Conflict
A young Rohingya refugee girl in a UNICEF temporary learning centre in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. : Uk Department for International Development CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/dfid/

Rohingya are hopeful of returning to their homeland in Myanmar, but for many the hope may never become a reality.

International Migrants Day

Rohingya migrants in limbo

Conflict
Migrant sex workers often face exploitation. : By SUMARYANTO BRONTO https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumaryanto-bronto/ CC BY 2.0

Nepal’s approach to protecting migrant workers lacks the nuance needed to seriously address abuse.

International Migrants Day

For migrant sex workers, choice matters

Human Interest
Tens of thousands of migrants have died at sea. : PxHere CC0 Public Domain

Death is likelier than ever for migrants who travel across the high seas. And yet they persist.

International Migrants Day

Risking death to cross the Bay of Bengal

Conflict